There are the usual amount of reviews this ish,
and most are roughly as long as they would be normally,
but I've had to cut a few formatting corners
and consolidate all of mine into a single file
without detailed header info
(and more on why in the file).

There are a few more reviews I couldn't get to
If I was to upload the 'zine at all before leaving
the country to tend to my own show
(all late entries piling in, some starting the new season)
but I'll try to add a quick addendum
in the next week or two.

I expect the next full ish will appear sometime in mid-late July,
after the rehearsals (starting May 11) and opening (June 11) of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz in Montreal— you may have notied the poster art :-) —
and I likewise expect we'll be back to normal niceties then.
Thanks as always for hanging in ...

For previous reviews of current or recent attractions,
as well as a partial selection of archival material
see regional indexes at the bottom
of the Home Page.

New
Features This Edition:

New York critic David Spencer reviews:

In a round-up, sans the usual formatting,
but still (mostly) in the usual depth:

San Francisco critic Judy Richter reviews:

The Addams Family
Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Book by Marshall Brickman & Rick Elice
Directed and Choreographed by Janie Scott
Presented by Palo Alto Players
Lucie Stern Theater

Death of a Salesman
by Arthur Miller
Directed by Kenneth Kelleher
Presented by San Jose Stage Company
The Stage
Fire on the Mountain
by Randal Myler & Dan Wheetman
Directed by Randal Myler
Presented by TheatreWorks
Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts
Fifth of July
by Lanford Wilson
Presented by Aurora Theatre Company
Directed by Tom Ross
Aurora Theatre

Let There Be Love
by Kwame Kwei-Armah
Directed byMaria Mileaf
Presented by and at the American Conservatory Theater

Les Misérables
Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg
Lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer
Book by Alain Boublil & Jean-Marc Natel
based on the novel by Victor Hugo
Directed by Jasen Jeffrey
Presented by Broadway By the Bay
Fox Theatre

Proof
by David Auburn
Directed by Greg Fritsch
Hillbarn Theatre
Sister Play
Written & Directed by John Kolvenbach
Presented by & at Magic Theatre
Talley's Folly
by Lanford Wilson
Presented by Aurora Theatre Company
Directed by Joy Carlin
Aurora Theatre
The Way West
by Mona Mansour
Directed by Hayley Finn
Presented by Marin Theatre Company
Boyer Theatre

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Muskin on behalf of David Spencer), were instructed by the judge to
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